on the toy shelves at Pick n'Pay...
Ruthless Aggression
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onelove
Crazy. Good mirror of our culture, maybe could rename as 'Useless Aggression'.
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Uno
Unfortunately aggression (in this society as in many others) has its uses, especially when it's generally accepted as an advantage or a quality that gives you the upper hand... the irony in the image is how it's associated with loyalty and respect...
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onelove
Unfortunately that is true. I still think useless applies because a gain in this sense doesn't translate into a gain in an absolute sense...it may provide immediate gains but in terms of creating a society with more humane values (including a good sense of loyalty and respect), i think its useless or even worse it undermines this goal. We are shortsighted this way.
More specifically useless because while we benefit from this in some ways it undermines us in others, I just think about the social ills that are created, by ourselves and others, through misplaced aggression (from family to public spaces) that we and our children bear the brunt of...
(In saying all this however I can't help but think back to our discussions of Debora Patta and her style of interviewing/chairing...)
Really disturbing that this message of loyalty to and respect for violence is being given to children...
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Uno
@onelove: Did you change your last comment?
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onelove
lol, yes sorry.
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Palapala
Interessante composicao com o complemento desse vosso dialgo .
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MothMan
it reminds me of the furore in the late 90's on the impact of violence in media on kids behaviour (columbine, marilyn manson etc)...more recently that kid who listened to the band Slipknot and decided to get ninja on kids at school...
does the onus not lie on parents to teach their kids that playing with toy guns, watching wrestling, video game carnage, the road runner blowing up the coyote etc is entertainment and imaginary and not a social compass for future behaviour as an adult?
...or is it a latent human gene that sparks in us the lust for violence?
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Uno
@ Moth:
I agree with you, it's definetely up to the parents to teach their kids. It's interesting that you brought up some of those examples (columbine, Marylin Manson, Slipknot), I think that we look at these external influences as the reason why kids become violent and not at ourselves and our day to day attitudes. This image wasn't about aggression in wrestling but about the responsibility we have in what we buy for our kids, what is on the shelves at the supermarket (which responds to what sells), what we let them watch on television, how we deal with our own frustration and let our steam out. It's about how most of us bully our way through life in order to get what we want and how we are giving this example to children around us.
As for the latent human gene I have to agree with you to a certain extent, by observing my own son, who was raised in a peaceful and respectful environment, without guns or violent toys but how immedaitelly when he picks up a stick from the floor it becomes a weapon...
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